Snowmelt, the single biggest predictor of the river's spring flood risk, won't play a big role this year as there wasn't much snow to begin with across the river basin.

PADUCAH, Ky. (WSIL) -- The Ohio River and the lower Mississippi River are both cresting in our region. This comes a week after a storm dumped multiple inches of rain across Kentucky, Missouri and ...

A spillway opening can be triggered to keep river flow below 1.25 million cubic ... in 2019 due to heavy rains that year in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys. The river rises in the late ...